Ming Dynasty 1566

Chapter 121

"Ouch! Second ancestor, you are getting old!" Feng Bao was carrying his five-year-old son on his back, playing hide-and-seek among the pillars in the corridor of the front yard, when he suddenly saw Chen Hong striding in with two eunuchs, and put down his son in a hurry , leading the eunuchs from the palace to welcome them, then knelt down and kowtowed.

The eunuchs of the palace behind him all knelt down, "The slaves kowtow to the second ancestor."

"That's all." Chen Hong looked at Feng Bao, "How is Prince Yu?"

Feng Bao: "Going back to the second ancestor, it's much better. Right now, Imperial Physician Li is asking for pulse again."

Chen Hong: "Lead me there."

Feng Bao and the eunuchs of the palace stood up, and led Chen Hong to walk inside.

"Big companion! Where are you going!" The eldest son came out from behind the big pillar in the corridor, blocking Feng Bao.

"Ouch, my son!" Chen Hong just saw his son, and just stepped on the stone steps, he knelt down there, and the two eunuchs who came with him also knelt down under the stone steps.

"Who is he?" The prince looked at Feng Bao and pointed at Chen Hong.

Feng Bao hurriedly went over and squatted down to hug the son: "Master Chen, this is Eunuch Chen, the grandpa's companion in the palace, and he is in charge of the slaves. Please, Eunuch Chen, please get up."

At this time, the son had already revealed his stubborn habits: "Why does he care about you? But you don't accompany me anymore."

Feng Bao was in a hurry: "My lord, hurry up and ask Eunuch Chen to get up. He always wants to see his father."

Only then did the son look at Chen Hong: "Get up. Don't let Feng Da accompany you."

"Don't let Da accompany Feng go." Chen Hong stood up with a smile, turned to Feng Bao and said, "You accompany the son, let them lead me."

"Yes." Feng Bao quickly said to the other two eunuchs, "You take the second ancestor there."

"Yes." The two eunuchs bowed their waists and slanted their bodies to lead Chen Hong and his party inside.

In July, after taking two courses of Li Shizhen's medicine, he cultivated Yuangu and strengthened his foundation. King Yu's illness was already in the dying stage. Hearing Li Shizhen's words, the door and windows of Dangnan's palace were opened at this time, and the ventilation flowed through. gas.Therefore, Chen Hong and his party were still in the backyard and saw King Yu sitting on the chair to the north from a distance, letting Li Shizhen ask for his pulse.

It is a common practice for famous doctors to diagnose the pulse. If you close your eyes and focus on it, it cannot be disturbed at all.Although Chen Hong came here on order, he also stopped when he looked at Li Shizhen and King Yu who were sitting there with their eyes closed and taking their pulse from a distance.The people who followed knew this rule even more, they all held their breath and stood in the courtyard.

But King Yu wanted to stand up when he saw Chen Hong.

"Don't move." Li Shizhen said softly with her eyes still closed.

King Yu sat down again, but he was no longer restless: "Mr. Li, Eunuch Chen from the palace is here."

"Don't move." Li Shizhen still closed her eyes.

There was a trace of unhappiness in Chen Hong's eyes, but he had to still stand in the courtyard.

"It's a decree, Mr. Li, I have to accept the decree." King Yu didn't dare to delay any longer, and stood up by himself.

Li Shizhen opened her eyes, stood up too, and walked out without saying a word.

Only then did Chen Hong walk towards the bedroom alone.

Li Shizhen walked out of the bedroom, Chen Hong entered the bedroom, the two passed by the door, Chen Hong smiled at Li Shizhen, but Li Shizhen stepped out of the palace door without looking.

Chen Hong's face darkened for a moment, and when he turned to look at King Yu, he smiled quickly, and then solemnly said, "There is an order from the Holy Spirit, and King Yu obeys the decree." He walked up to the north and stood still.

King Yu turned to the south and knelt down.

Chen Hong took out Hai Rui's handwriting folded into squares from his pocket, and said, "There is a head of the household department, Hai Rui, who wrote a few words for me in Liubiju, does King Yu know?"

King Yu was startled, and replied, "I don't know what my father said."

Chen Hong went on to say: "That Hai Rui said that he wrote these few words to 'justify people's hearts and calm false rumors' for me, is it true or not?"

King Yu was surprised, and it took him a long time to reply: "My son doesn't even know what my father said."

Chen Hong: "Whether it's true or not, whether you know it or don't know it, you should copy this word, pay your money, engrave a plaque and hang it in Liubiju. Here you go!"

King Yu was at a loss, so he had no choice but to kowtow: "Your minister leads the decree."

After pronouncing the decree, Chen Hong is a slave. He hurriedly came over to help King Yu with both hands, first handed him the letter, and then helped him to sit on the front chair in the north, and knelt down by himself: "Slave Chen Hong kowtowed to Lord Yu. Chitose!"

King Yu was hastily unfolding the picture to read: "Get up."

Chen Hong kowtowed and stood up, quietly waiting for King Yu to finish reading the picture.

After reading it, King Yu still didn't know what to do, and looked at Chen Hong blankly: "What's going on? I don't understand at all."

Chen Hong: "It's not a big deal if you return to King Yu Qiansui. It's the new head of the household department, Hai Rui, who is full of food. He ran to Liubiju as soon as he came to Beijing and wrote these words. What else did he say? It’s for the purpose of ‘rectifying people’s hearts and quieting false rumors’ for the emperor. The slave figured out that the emperor approved these few words, so that’s why Prince Yu wrote it and posted it to Liubiju.”

King Yu finally understood the ins and outs, but he was still there in a daze: "I have never even seen this Hai Rui, why did the emperor ask me to write it?"

Chen Hong lowered his head: "This slave doesn't dare to think about it."

King Yu had no choice but to say: "Eunuch Chen returned the edict to the emperor, and said that the sons and ministers received the edict, and I will write it today."

Chen Hong: "Lord Yu, don't worry, this servant knows how to answer for you, Lord Yu."

King Yu stood up: "Then please do so."

Chen Hong hurriedly went over to help him: "Your Highness said so to kill slaves."

King Yu was actually unhappy being held by him, but he still had to treat it with a gentle face. After thinking about it, he took off the hotan jade pendant with a golden silk sleeve from his waist belt: "This is the jade pendant that I have hung for many years. Things, reward you."

Chen Hong immediately knelt down: "How can a slave dare to be rewarded so generously by the prince without credit?"

King Yu: "It's rare for you to serve the emperor for this king. This is a great contribution. Take it."

Of course, Chen Hong knew that this was a rare treasure in the whole world, and even more that it was a win over by King Yu, so he secretly rejoiced in his heart, and kowtowed heavily: "Slave, thank you for the reward!" He raised his head and clasped his hands together in gratitude After passing the jade pendant, he stood up.

King Yu: "I won't keep you for dinner when you're on a big mission, go back to the palace and get back the order."

However, Chen Hong showed a look of embarrassment again, he stood there deliberately hesitating, and did not intend to move.

King Yu has always been sensitive: "Is there anything else?"

Chen Hong even showed a sad look: "My lord, you are ill, this sentence is really hard for me to say, but the holy order has to say..."

King Yu's face immediately became tense: "What's the matter? Tell me quickly."

Chen Hong said in a low voice, "Long Live Lord is very displeased with someone beside Wang Ye, and asked his servants to send him to Chaotianguan to serve as a sweeper."

"Who?" King Yu's expression changed.

"Feng Bao." Chen Hong whispered these two words.

King Yu was stunned.

Chen Hong was also silent there.

"Why did the father have such a decree!" Came Li Concubine's startled question from the bedroom inside, "Who is slandering the father!"

"Shut up!" King Yu immediately stopped Concubine Li who was speaking in the bedroom.

"I can't keep my mouth shut." Concubine Li immediately pushed back, her voice extremely angry, "Father is only one grandson, and only Feng Bao can take care of him, who is so heartless and wants to spoil my Zhu family's affairs!"

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" King Yu stomped his feet and said shut up three times in a row, then his face turned pale and he gasped for breath.

"My lord!" Chen Hong was also startled, he moved King Yu to the chair and sat down.

"My lord! What's the matter with you!" Concubine Li couldn't care anymore, she hurried out of the bedroom and ran towards King Yu, holding his neck with one hand and stroking his chest with the other, calling loudly, "Prince Doctor Li! Quickly call Doctor Li!"

Several eunuchs and court ladies rushed in, not knowing what to do, all of them opened their eyes in panic and were at a loss.

Concubine Li's face was dripping with sweat: "What are you doing here! Please call for Doctor Li!"

The eunuchs and maids swarmed out again.

Li Shizhen walked in quickly!
At this moment, King Yu's eyes were closed and his teeth were clenched. His face was as white as paper!

"Please get out of the way!" Li Shizhen stared closely at Chen Hong who was still supporting King Yu's right arm.

Chen Hong quickly moved away.

Concubine Li was still holding the back of King Yu's neck on his left side, seeing Li Shizhen's eyes had already burst into tears: "Princess Li, save the prince quickly!"

Li Shizhen: "Don't worry." He took out a small cloth bag containing silver needles from the bag hanging around his waist, "Fire!"

Concubine Li hurriedly called out: "Fire!"

Two palace maids rushed in, one brought a candle holder from the coffee table on the side, and the other picked up the flint and velvet from the table, but couldn't hit it with trembling hands.

Chen Hong: "Give it to me!" He snatched the flint and flint from the hand of the court lady, lit the candle on the candlestick, and handed it to Li Shizhen.

Li Shizhen took out a silver needle and burned it on the candle, then took out a cotton ball stained with white medicine from the cloth bag, wiped the silver needle, and stabbed it at King Yu's people.

Then, Li Shizhen took out a roll of mugwort leaves from the bag, lit it on the candle, blew out the open flame, opened Yu Wang's skirt with one hand, and moxibustion to an acupuncture point on Yu Wang's chest.

King Yu's jaw loosened, and he let out a long breath slowly.

"My lord!" Concubine Li held his head and wept.

King Yu opened his eyes, looked at her with sadness, and the first sentence was: "Let Feng Bao go with Eunuch Chen..."

"Let him go, the concubine just let him go." Concubine Li replied sobbing.

King Yu closed his eyes again.

Li Shizhen slowly pulled out the silver needle from King Yu's middle school, and said, "Everyone who is fine, please go out."

Concubine Li looked at Chen Hong with hatred in her eyes: "Just take him away, what are you still doing here?"

Chen Hong fell to his knees with a thump: "My lord and concubine killed my servant unjustly! I don't know why there is such an oracle. There are thousands of different people who come here. The servant is really not a human being inside and outside!" After finishing speaking, he knocked again. a bang.

King Yu: "I don't blame you, I don't blame you, go back to the palace and revise the decree..."

Chen Hong kowtowed again: "The prince must cherish the jade body, and the princess should not be too anxious, the slave is gone." He stood up, bowed his head and retreated.

Concubine Li was burning with anxiety at this moment, she looked at Li Shizhen: "Please ask Imperial Doctor Li to take care of the prince, I'm going to take care of the prince."

Li Shizhen lowered her head slightly: "My lord is safe, just ask someone to carry him to the bed and lie down. Princess, please go ahead."

Concubine Li slowly let go of the hand supporting King Yu, and hurried to the door: "Take the prince to the bed and lie down!"

"Yes!" The two eunuchs rushed in.

Concubine Li glanced back again, hurriedly lifted her skirt and walked out the door to the front yard.Several maids hurriedly followed.

Feng Bao never dreamed that the steps he had built up with so much painstaking efforts in the past few years would collapse when someone poked them lightly with a little finger.At this time, I was still with the prince, lying on a pillar, blindfolded with a piece of cloth, and shouted loudly: "Heaven, Earth, Yuan, Huang, Yu, Zhou, Hong, Huang! Hide away!" Is it? I'm going to catch it!"

The prince and a few eunuchs smiled excitedly and replied in the yard: "Hide well, come and catch!"

Feng Bao blindfolded and stretched out his arms to touch the direction of Shizi's voice.

The prince had already avoided it with a suppressed smile, but pushed an eunuch to the place where he was standing just now.

Feng Bao pretended to be in the wrong direction, and touched this with his hands. When he got to the place where the eunuch was standing, he turned around and grabbed it: "Catch it!"

"Wrong! Companion, what you are arresting is a slave. The son of the world has already won the victory and returned to the court!" The eunuch said hurriedly.

Shizi giggled on the other side of the yard.

"I can always catch you!" Feng Bao pretended to be unwilling, turned around and touched the direction of Shizi's laughter.

Both eyes were blindfolded, and it was true that he could not see anything, but the bricks and pillars of this courtyard had long been in Feng Bao's mind, and they would never bump into each other again, so he walked very lightly, scrambling here and there. Suddenly he couldn't hear any sound, so he thought it was the son of the world who made everyone squat at the base of the wall or the pillar, and didn't touch those places, but touched the stone steps, intending to trip the stone steps and fall to the ground End this game.

Just as he was touching the stone steps, he heard footsteps, obviously the footsteps of an adult, and at the same time he heard Shizi's uncontrollable giggles, so he grabbed that person!
The prince laughed loudly: "Good catch! Good catch!"

"Hello, son!" The arrested man spoke, but it was Chen Hong's voice!

Feng Bao was startled, let go of his hands in a hurry, and pulled off the blindfold: "Damn the slave!" Immediately he knelt down to Chen Hong.

Chen Hong looked at him coldly.

Humans have a head and four limbs, which are called the five bodies.Humans have genitals, which are called "palaces" for the reproduction of offspring.In the Han Dynasty, there was the punishment of removing human genital organs, so it was called "gong punishment".The eunuchs are called "self palaces" because they live in the royal family as slaves and remove their genitals.As for those who respectfully call eunuchs "Gong Gong", because "Gong" and "Gong" are homophonic, they used to have the meaning of palace.

The eunuch went to the "palace", that is to say, he cut off the root of standing alone. Only by living in the royal family and relying on the master as the root, can he live and live.If once abandoned by the royal master, it will wither and die immediately like a tree with cut roots.Feng Bao was poor and was invited by his parents to have his penis in the palace since he was a child. He asked relatives and friends. He was considered lucky and went directly to the palace and attached his roots to the emperor.On the 39th day of the twelfth lunar month in the [-]th year of Jiajing, as the eunuch in charge of the punishment department, in order to please Jiajing, he lowered his cane and killed Zhou Yunyi, the Qin Tianjian. To the people, it is almost like a tree without roots.Thanks to Lu Fang's care and teaching of "thinking of danger, thinking of retreating and thinking of change", he was sent to Yu Wang's mansion, and finally attached his roots to Yu Wang again.When the son was born, he realized the method of "retirement is change", so he attached his roots to the son with all kinds of thoughts, and accompanied him day and night, so that the son regarded him as a part of his body, and refused to let him go for a while. After leaving, Feng Bao gave up his heart and devoted the rest of his life to this little master.After a while, as long as this little master's roots are strong, he will flourish.

Who knows that people count days as impermanence.Avoiding it from a distance, the person who broke his roots today is still here!
Feng Bao knelt in front of Chen Hong's feet, at first he pretended to be his children and grandchildren kneeling in front of his father and grandparents, with a mildly attached smile, but soon he was frozen by Chen Hong's cold face, especially the coldness in his eyes There, fear was also revealed from the eyes.

Several other young eunuchs had already followed Feng Bao to kneel in the yard at this time, and only one prince was left standing. Seeing the way Chen Hong and the two eunuchs who came with him looked at Feng Bao, the prince was also timid. I don't know what happened for a while.

At this time, the hurried footsteps of Concubine Li and several court ladies came from the corridor leading from the backyard to the front yard.

Chen Hong didn't delay any longer, and said loudly: "Shangyu, my servant Feng Bao has listened!"

Feng Bao shivered and pushed his head to the ground.

Concubine Li, who had already rushed to the eaves of the porch in the front yard, stopped in a daze when she heard these words, and several maids with her held their breaths and stood behind her tightly.

Knowing that Concubine Li was standing behind, Chen Hong intentionally spoke in a softer voice: "You slave, you don't keep your duty when you are in the palace, and you are domineering! I listened to Lu Fang's pleading and sent you to King Yu. You have changed your mind and become an honest errand, but you have not changed your nature. You have sneaked back to the palace of the Forbidden City many times to secretly send messages to provoke right and wrong, and I will bear with you for a day! Go to Chaotian Temple to do hard labor! Sanqing Shangxian may be able to dissolve your snake and scorpion heart with supreme magic power. !"

This paragraph of the enunciation is blank, but everyone still understands it.Feng Bao was lying there stiffly, and the other eunuchs were also kneeling there stiffly.Only the eldest son didn't fully understand, but he had already understood some meaning from the expressions of Chen Hong and everyone else. After all, the children who were less than five years old were shocked there for a moment.

"Your Majesty!" Concubine Li saw that her son's face turned pale, and hurried over, bent down and hugged him, "Go with mother to the harem."

At this time, the son saw his mother and concubine and suddenly regained his senses. He didn't know where the little man got the strength, he shook off his mother's hand and ran towards Feng Bao. "Your Majesty!" Concubine Li also panicked, turned around and followed.

At this time, Chen Hong relied on the emperor's envoy, so he just bowed to Concubine Li and the son: "Princess, son, the slave has to follow orders, please take the son away."

(End of this chapter)